“We know that Londoners want these routes and that they want them to be delivered to the high standard I promised, as quickly as possible,” Johnson said in a press release. “I now look forward to the transformation that these planned routes will bring—not just for people who cycle now, but for the thousands of new cyclists they will attract.”

According to the release, more than 170,000 bike trips are made in London every day, a 25 percent increase over 2013. The approved plans would update the four existing superhighways and create four additional bike superhighways, one of which would be a north-south corridor and another that would run east-west. Segregation from motor vehicle traffic has also been proven to reduce cycling fatalities, according to the release.

These plans are just the latest in a long-term vision Johnson proposed in March 2013, of which roughly $1.4 billion would be invested in the city’s biking infrastructure. The goal, as stated in the proposal, is to raise the level of cycling with other prominent European cities, namely Amsterdam and Copenhagen.

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